Keyword: «interaction of language and culture»

the article deals with one of the important issues of teaching - the problem of communicative competence, which is actively developed in foreign and domestic scientific literature. Communicative competence is not only the ability of an individual to establish and maintain the necessary relationships with other people, and to provide communication through the perception of someone else's speech and reading authentic texts. The article considers the development of the communicative competence in acts of intercultural communication through adequate perception of interlocutor’s speech and understanding authentic texts, which is the result of secondary language personality formation of military foreigners.